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Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code
LM Studio 0.4.0 introduced llmster and the lms CLI. Here is how I set up Gemma 4 26B for local inference on macOS that can be used with Claude Code.
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A tail-call interpreter in (nightly) Rust
Exploring tail-call-style interpreter implementation with an optimized Uxn emulator, on ARM, x86, and WebAssembly
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Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI
For eight years, I’ve wanted a high-quality set of devtools for working with SQLite. Given how important SQLite is to the industry1, I’ve long been puzzled that no one has invested in building a …
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I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit
I imported the entire Linux kernel git history into pgit's PostgreSQL-backed storage. 1,428,882 commits, 24.4 million file versions, 20 years of development. Here's what the kernel looks like when you can just ask.
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Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode
Actually building floating point from scratch!
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Components of a Coding Agent
How coding agents use tools, memory, and repo context to make LLMs work better in practice
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SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File
Run Rails on SQLite with WAL and Docker volumes while accounting for the concurrency failure that appears during blue-green deploys.
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Signals, the push-pull based algorithm
We have been using Signals in production for years via several modern front-end frameworks like Solid, Vue, and others, but few of us are able to explain how they work internally. I wanted to dig into it, especially diving deep into the push-pull based algorithm, the core mechanism behind their reactivity.
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Big-Endian Testing with QEMU
In computing, the terms big endian and little endian refer to the order in which a value's bytes are stored in memory: with the most significant (big) or least significant (little) part first.
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Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits
I have seen a lot of public discussion around supply-chain attacks on the Python ecosystem, prompt injection risks when using coding agents,...
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Modern SQLite: Features You Didn't Know It Had
SQLite has evolved far beyond a simple embedded database. Explore modern features like JSON, FTS5, window functions, strict tables, and more.
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Signing data structures the wrong way
Domain separation bugs have bitten Bitcoin, Ethereum, TLS, and AWS. Snowpack solves this by embedding random domain separators directly in the IDL.
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Fast and Gorgeous Erosion Filter
This blog post and the companion video both explain an erosion technique I’ve worked on over the past eight months. The video has lots of e...
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Vulnerability research is cooked
Vulnerability discovery has always been gated by elite attention. Elite attention is now abundant. What happens next?
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Intuiting Pratt Parsing
You already know that a + b * c + d is calculated as a + (b * c) + d. But how do you encode that knowledge precisely enough for a machine to act on it?
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Good CTE, Bad CTE
The planner treats CTEs very differently depending on how you write them. Here's what happens under the hood, version by version, through PostgreSQL 18.
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Copilot edited an ad into my PR
After a team member summoned Copilot to correct a typo in a PR of mine, Copilot edited my PR description to include and ad for itself and Raycast .
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More on Version Control
This may have some legs
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What category theory teaches us about dataframes
Every dataframe library ships with hundreds of operations. pandas alone has over 200 methods on a DataFrame. Is pivot different from melt? Is apply different from map? What about transform, agg, applymap, pipe? Some of these seem like the same operation wearing different hats. Others seem genuinely distinct. Without a…
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A Recipe for Steganogravy
how to hide juicy data in plain sight
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From 300KB to 69KB per Token: How LLM Architectures Solve the KV Cache Problem
How the KV cache gives every AI conversation a physical weight in silicon, and what happens when the memory runs out.
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TruffleRuby
TruffleRuby started as my internship project at Oracle Labs in early 2013. It is an implementation of the Ruby programming language on the JVM, using the Graal dynamic compiler and the Truffle AST interpreter framework . TruffleRuby can achieve peak performance well beyond that possible in JRuby at the same time as…
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Linux is an interpreter
And why you would want to exec a cpio
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I decompiled the White House's new app
The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.
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Should QA exist?
There are a lot of challenges in the way QA and engineering work together. Many eng leaders think you shouldn't have QA. I dig in.
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Reinventing the pull request
We have significantly improved how code reviews work in Lubeno. We think code review should do more than catch bugs, it should also help teams reduce comprehension debt. In this post, I want to explain how that idea shaped our recent work on code review in Lubeno.
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Agent-to-agent pair programming
What if you could let Claude and Codex work together as pair programmers, talking to each other directly? One of them as the main worker and the other as a reviewer.
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Building a Blog with Elixir and Phoenix
Setting up a website using Elixir and Phoenix, leaning on NimblePublisher for the blog posts.
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Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
Watch someone backspace 40 characters instead of pressing CTRL+W, and you’ll understand why this list exists. A collection of shell tricks-grouped by what works everywhere and what’s Bash/Zsh-speci...
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Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed
Why do I file bug reports with Apple Feedback Assistant ? I plead insanity. Or perhaps addiction. I seesaw between phases of abstinence and falling off the wagon. I’ve even tried organizing a public boycott of Feedback Assistant, with a list of demands to improve the experience for users, but the boycott never caught…